Analysis of Puff, Puff, Pass



“Yeha noha,
Yeha noha.”
The Indians chant,
summoning the healing spirits
from the marijuana cloud.
Puff, puff, and pass the chillum pipe.
Bodies carelessly twirl the ceremonial dance.
Those days are aged.

A stoned car tore through Chippewa school district,
bodies flung, viciously,
against hard turf,
and the spliff flew from the puff-puff-passing hands.
Blood stained the white car red,
and dripped from the hood as thick as ignorant minds.

Can cannabis cure a family’s pain?
Puff, puff and pass the crack-cocaine.


Scheme AAxxxxxx xxxxxx bb
Poetic Form
Metre 11 11 01001 10001010 100101 1101011 101001001001 1111 0111110110 101100 0111 00111011101 110111 011011111001 11001011 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 506
Words 83
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 6, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 20, 2023

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Earle Francis Brown

I was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica. I was told that I can write, so I wrote and continues to write. I am currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. I enjoy reading "real" poetry. My favorite books are the Pslams, Proverbs and Songs of Solomon.Poetry is not just vocabulary, and use of metaphors and formats. Don't be tricked. Poetry should speak life. I love a poem that tells a story. The most memorable poems are the ones that tell someone's story. I don't care about ratings; the truth is always hated. People are people where-ever we go. more…

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